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Bt the office boy
Morehouse has received
Mrs. from Mrs. Harold
another - letter l Marks) and has
Grey. (Elizabeth to print ex
kindly permitted us Grey’s home
tracts from it. Mrs.
in Bromley, a suburb of Lon
is southwest of the city, in the
don, oath of incoming planes.
direct > _ days ago the radio an
A few the houses in
nounced that half
B Rrnmlev had been hit.
Extracts from the letter follow:
“Well, as you’ ( ve heard on your
radio and by the. papers, London
been having a hot time. Still
has to along as usual,
manage go
those of us who have a roof over
heads, i Each morning we wake
our thankful more night has
up one
and we’re all safe. As I sit
»one pounding
writing, the guns are
away and the drone of the planes
keeps co ming, but I listen with less
dread to them now, since we have
a heavier barrage going. Before,
felt so helpless and when one
one ■screaming bomb’ coming
hears a put the fear of the
down. it does
Lord in your heart, and after the
thud, you breathe again. We’ve
had bombs drop in streets near us,
hut so far have been lucky, with
on lv a cracked pane of glass.
[ .The other night a “land mine”
wit off near us and blew the
Lath L doors open and shook us
a bit. The girls sleep through
y the noise and aren’t in the least
L rv 0 us. Harold and Cornelia sleep
upstairs, but I’ve brought Nance
down and -we sleep in the sitting
room Everyone either sleeps down
stairs these days or goes into their
shelter. We feel, if your number is
up you'll gel it no matter where
m are. I stay up until things get
a little quiet, because if an incen
diary bomb does fall on the house,
lomeone will be awake to get at it.
When I go to bed the planes are
ming over at longer intervals.
When one is on the way over I gc
lip, do mv hair, then by the time
the next one has passed, I’m ready
to jump in the tub and by the time
I'm out, the next fellow is coming,
jl 5’11 feel then if we do get a bomb.
at least be covered! At night,
[ts 1 sit alone, I can outside. hear the It’s shrap- be
nell falling around
come a game with all the children
[tn N'eVe go on the hunt in the mornings. pieces,
found some nasty
kbich I would hate to have law*;
n me
“The raids during the day, aren’t
is upsetting, because I supp./ae,
me can see usually, what’s going
In. We've watched some exciting
lights, but they are over before
be realizes it. One hears the
[lanes k coming in before the sirens,
for usually. We’ve seen them come
fifty at a time, so high they
[ok ghostly. I One evening Cor
ps and saw three Spitfires on
p tail of a bomber, and could see
ie flashes from the guns, but
lust have been done in then, be-'
luse there wasn’t an answering
ph “So irom life the bomber. usual,
our goes on, as
pugh ankful one we’re lives one safe day by at evening a time,
F [come. holding thumbs for the night
Harold and Cornelia go
fotown Nd the and Nance to school and
fort. The girls and my
still go to our Saturday after
P cinema, raid or no raid, in
r* here's usually a couple on.
kile we're in the pictures. I re
p to give up our bit of pleasure,
Pbs or no bombs.
1 1 tried canning some plums and
k'berries, the former by heat-
1 the fruit in the oven, then
[ [ lin ! e S berries on boiling with water cold and seal
Ucid " water and
tablet. Our runner beans
r e * 00 tough to salt down, and
[■quash Sear ^ wasn’t had quite very successful nice
r ' e a lot
[Potatoes, r n g very and well, our also red cabbage
the sprouts
coming along nicely. We
I n ’ seprri to get the carrots to
r up this year.
Phe air is getting very nippy
r ays, so I suppose the warm
L ner 1S gone for this year. It’s
a grand summer, ideal for
%% L, ‘ u n Ut : we suppose ve bad to stay at
At " we mustn't
r J p - least we’ve got a roof
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11 ( hi me System
1 o Re Installed
H. Porter, of Macon, has
" d the Methodist Church
tne poop !fx of Covington
p for tb new
p church tower,
new ehimes are much
r and lore efficient
[ ones than the
hieh were also given
F- Po through the Rotary
Tk chimes have
anee and a wider
it ! is now possible
kind of music. A sys
bee nstalled that
so per
bearing may now
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to 7n%n Mr n 0rter ' apprecia
i, installing for this gift.
Ramsey the equipment -
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Volume 76 The G«or(fi» Covington Enterprise Star IK Bat 1*64. 1874.
BISHOP ARTHU » i r ~,0RE TO VISIT COVINGTON
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Col. F- M. Tuck Appointed Board Clerk I
Will Attend Methodist
Lay-League Meeting At
Gym Monday Evening
More Than Thousand People
Are Expected Here for
Meeting.
CHURCH LADIES WILL
SERVE DINNER TO THE
300 LAY-LEAGUE GUESTS
Bishop Moore to Preach at
The Gymnasium at
8:00 O’clock.
More than a thousand people
are expected to attend the De
catur-Oxford District Methodist
Lay League meting Monday eve
ning in Covington.
Bishop Arthur Moore will at
tend and preside at the n? y^r,
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ton Gymnasium which is the larg
est ^building in the city. Bishop
Moore is a former Georgia boy
having been reared in a South
Georgia community. He is one of
the most widely known men in the
state and nation today and people
throughout this section look for
ward to hearing him. He has serv
ed the church in all pacts of the
world and was serving in China at
the time beginning of the war
with Japan. He is thoroughly con
versed with conditions in near
ly every foreign country. This is
the first time in many years Bishop
Moore has visited this section of
the state.
Bishop Moore will arrive in Cov
ington at noon Monday and at 2:00
o’clock, he will hold conferences
with preachers and laymen of the
district during the afternoon. At
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President Roosevelt inspects the U. S. Army Air Corps station at W right
Field. Dayton, Ohio, prior to a broadcast in which he defied the Axis,
declaring no combination of powers can stop America from giving aid to
Britain. With him are Orville Wright (center), co-inventor of the air
plane, and Jame* M. Cox (right), former Ohio governor. In background
■re parachutists in plane.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 1940
E ft Q GLEE CLUB
Group Rehearsing Each
Week; Several Programs
Planned During Year
The personnel of the Emory at
Oxford Glee Club for this year is
announced this week by the direct
or, Professor Virgil Y. C. Eady.
Those selected are: First tenors:
Kerry Carter, Jack Davis, Jack
Hightower, Henry Jennings, Ed
win Lay, Hugh Wilcox, Second
tenors: Nicky Bolton, John Brasel
ton, V. T. Chen, Neil Glass, Lamar
Hicks, Buddy Irwin. Richard
Johnston. Jimmie Kay, Jack Smith,
James Tate. First basses: Chas.
Adams, Herbert Abercrombie.
Pearce Cleveland, Ed Daniels.
Hugh Darden, Larry Haygood.
Jack Burnett, Gordon Hanson.
Buck Hall, Bob Moore, Gid Par
rish, Frank Robinson, Bill Ross,
Bobby Stanton, Joe Conley.
Second basses: Russell Bailes,
Bill Grant, Harrold Herrin, Sher
man Hughes, Bill Hall, Clifford
Martin, W. L. Norton, Jack Reeve,
Martin Smith, and Goodwin Tuck.
The officers of this group are:
Henry Jennings, president; Buddy
Irwin, vice-president; Hugh Dar
den, secretary-treasurer; Martin
Smith, business manager; Jack
Burnette, associate business man
ager; and Nicky Bolton, of Cov
ington, librarian.
The club, according to Mr. Eady,
is rehearsing several times each
week, and promises to be another
good ‘Little Emory Glee Club,
which will be heard in many pro
grams here and there during this
year. It is reported that the Ox
ford singers received an enthusi
astic welcome before the state con
vention of Kiwanians in Macon
last week.
Prof. Eady is being assisted this
year by Professor Smith Harris,
the director of the orchestra.
Red Cross Knitting
Club Meets Today
The Knitting Club meeting
scheduled to be held at the home of
Mrs. R. S. Harwell at Oxford has
been postponed due to sickness.
The meeting will be held this af
ternoon at the library at 3:30
o’clock.
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Air raid wardens carry an injured civilian to safety in London as the British capital carries on after one
of the heaviest bombing attacks of the war. Concussion of the bombs was so great that persons were hurled
fifty feet through the air and crushed against the sides of buildings.
Scout Troops And Cub Packs
Eligible Tor Drake Streamer
Covington News
In New Quarters
New Location to Provide
More » Up-to-Date
Facilities.
The Covington News is being
moved this week to new and larg
er quarters and will resume full
operation next week with more
modern equipment and a more up
to-date plant.
The paper has steadily grown
during the past ten years and has
enlarged the old building on two
different occasions. It has now be
come necessary to move into a
larger and more modem structure
Fowler Trading Company is
moving out of their quarters into
the News building and has taken
over the Bennett and Cofer ware
house. The News is moving into
the large Fowler building keeping
the press room housing the large
rotary press and equipment. The
Linotypes, Ludlow, composing
room, bindery and engraving de
partment is being moved as the
paper comes off the press. The of
fice has been moved and now oc
cupies the lower corner of the
large Fowler building.
The management has spent sev
eral months working out the floor
plans w ith experts in order to
keep their plant up on a par with
the most modern in the United
States. Most of the machiners and
presses will be placed so that op
erators and pressmen may receive
the most light and have the best
working conditions. Any person
interested may see almost the en
tire plant in operation when com
pleted from the large front plate j
glass windows.
An entirely new electrical set-up
has been necessary and electric
lans are , busy preparing „ „^ 0 ,.incr tr to ha have; vp
the machines in operation by the
first of the week. The Covington j
News w ill be the largest and most!
moriern weekly paper in the state
when completed.
Local Man Starts j
Auto Finance Co.
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Gordon Robinson .well known |
resident of Covington, has opened j
an Auto Finance Company in the
building next to the Rainey Motor
will make loans to persons desir
to buv or trade ft*' a newer
ar. Those interested should see
Mr Robinson Rfl Ki n c 0n at a t his his office oftice An A ad- a
vertisement giving full details may
be found elsewhere in this issue.
Eleven Boy Scout Troops and
Cub Packs in Newton County are
among the 87 Troops in the Cen
tral Georgia Countil that a*e eli
gible for the A. A. Drake Streamer,
a presentation to be made at the
Annual Meeting of the Council by
Mr. Drake,. Council President.
In successfully competing for
the Streamer, which may be at
tached to the Troop Flag staff, each
Troop must met the following con
ditions:
1. Receive recommendation of
the District Commissioner for
quality of Troop Programs con
ducted during the last quarter of
1940.
2. Have at least 50 per cent of
Troop’s present membership ad
vance one rank between October
15 and December 31. Boys already
First Class will be c-edited with
an advancement if they earn at
least two Merit Badges.
3. Show a net increase of at
least 10 per cent in registered
membership for the calendar year,
and recruit new members as fol
lows:
Troop Present Enrollment N.—R
Troop P. E. N. R
67 Covington 19 8
72 Covington 20 8
73 Covington 22 8
68 Porterdale 15 10
69 Porterdale 31 1
70 Porterdale 9 10
78 Mansfield 12 10
Pack Present Enrollment N.—R.
Pack P. E. N. R
21 Porterdale 8 10
22 Porterdale 8 10
23 Covington 15
28 Covington 8 10
Troop 67 is sponsored by the
American Legion and J. L. Skin
ner is Scoutmaster and D. G.
Bruce, Assistant Scoutmaster, with
H. F. Meadows, E. B. Rogers, and
W. G. Hays, serving as Troop
Committeemen.
Troop 72 is sponsored by the iK
. Club and , George _ Cochran _ .
warns *
Scoutmaster, R. C. Guinn, . As- .
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distant Scoutmaster, and Jacob
Haas, J. I. Alford, and T. G. Calla
way, Jr. Troop Committeemen.
The Bible Class at the Coving
ton Mills Church sponsors Troop
£/• Ltu.TJZilZLt
and W. A. Childers, H. M.
Lott, and H. A. Wall, Sr., Troop
Committeemen,
Thomas G. Price is Scoutmas
ter of Troop 68, Joe Burch and
(Continued on Page Seven)
TAX NOTICE
Books now open for payment of
State, County and Intangible tax
for 1940.
S. M. HAY, T. C.
Newton County,
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Dr.W.K. Swann Named r
As Chairman For New
3-Man Defense Group
Austrian Winter Peas Still i
Available As Part of
Aid Program.
The Newton County Fair spon
sored by the local post of the Am
erican Legion came to a close last
Saturday after a very satisfactory
week. The farmers of Newton
County are to be congratulated on
the quality of exhibits they
brought to the fair. Especially is
this true in the livestock depart
ment. Last year two tents were
used and were a little crowded so
this year it was decided to have
three tents and still they were
crowded. Not only was the num
ber there but the livestock was of
excellent quality. One tent was
filled with registered Jerseys of as
good quality and breeding as can
be found. In the large tent was an
exhibition of fat beef steers, pure
bred beef cattle and work mares
with horse and mule colts that
could not be surpassed in Georgia.
You will hear more of those steers
when they are finished and sold
on the Atlanta market next spring.
The third tent was filled with rid
ing and pleasure horses, including
five gaited and three gaited sad
dle horses and ponies of an excel
lent quality. Also included in this
exhibit were several breeding an
imals, some with colts at side, of
the famous Tennessee Walking
Horse breed.
Next week we hope to be able
to give you a list of the winnings
in all classes of livestock and ag
ricultural exhibits. Newton Coun
ty farmers certainly are awake and
progressive in all things now in
agriculture and show themselves
willing \o be judged by the public
through means of their fair exhib
its.
New regulations under the 1941
Farm Program call for at least 20
per cent of the acreage in a farm
being seeded to certain soil build
ing crops. If a farmer fails to seed
the acreage required he will be
penalized $5.00 an acre for every
acre he is short. As an example we
will say a farmer has 100 acres ol
cultivated land. Then he must seed
20 acres of this land to certain soil
building crops in order to get full
payment. Now we will suppose he
only seeded 15 acres. Then he wil'
be penalized $5.00 an acre for the
5 acres he failed to seed which
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Final Drives for
General Election
Now Underway
Little Interest Being Shown.
No Competition in
Local Races
Interest in the general election,
to be held next Tuesday, is reach
ing a higher pitch, although, as
was expected, it has not reached
the heights shown in the Demo
cratic primary.
Throughout the Nation, the two
leading political parties are mak
ing last minute efforts to gather in
the votes for their respective can
didates. The foregone conclusion
in the “Solid South” is that, true
to form, the Democratic nominees
will get the larger part of the votes
that are to be counted next Tues
day night. The Democratic lead
ers are, however, making an ef
fort to get the largest vote pos
sible in every sector.
In Newton County the coming
election is receiving but little in
terest due largely to the fact that
all local candidates are without
opposition. Nine names appear on
the ballot for Newton County of
fices. They are as follows: A. L.
Loyd, Ordinary: C. O. Nixon, Clerk
of Superior Court; W. G. Benton,
Sheriff; Eva Stephenson, Tax Re
ceiver; S. M. Hay, Tax Collector;
C. P. Adams, Treasurer; W. K.
(Continued on Page Seven)
Boys in Gray at 50 th Reunion
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Private Frank Powell (left), 102, of New Orleans, greets General Julius
F. Howell, of Bristol, Pa., commander-in-chief of the United Confeder
ate Veterans as the Boys in Gray met in Washington for their 50tb
reunion,
THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE i!
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NUMBER 45
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Registration Cards Hava
Been Numbered by
Locai Board.
NATIONAL LOTTERY
SCHEDULED OCT. 29
IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
Complete List Will Ba
Posted in the Near
Future.
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The names of the Newton Coun *
ty Draft Board was announced this
week as another stage of America’s
first peace-time conscription was
reached. Members of the local
Board are: Dr. W. K. Swann,
Chairman, Harry Stewart, Secre
tary, and Emmett Rogers. CoL
R. W. Tuck has been named as
clerk for this Board and will hav#
charge of supervising the work
of the group.
The cards made last Wednesday,
when the eligible men in the Coun
ty registered for possible military
s. vice, were numbered yesterday.
These cards were numbered from
one on up. Late last night 2.366
had been numbered. Others will
be added as received from other
Counties but Col. Tuck stated last
night that this was the bulk of the !;
Newton County registration. Ap
proximately 175 cards were sent
from this County to other Coun- ! i
ties having jurisdiction over per- | I
sons who registered here.
When the cards are all number
ed. a complete list of every reg
istrant will be made showing the
number assigned to each man.
This list will be posted in a public
place, on ecopy being retained by
the local board and one being sent
to the Governor. ,1
A lottery will be held in Wash
ington, D. C. on October 29 to
draw numbers that will determine
which men will be called for duty
first. The local Board will be noti
fied of these numbers and the lo
cal registrants will in turn be no
tified and will be sent a question
naire.
This questionnaire will give the
Board the necessary information
to use in classifying each regis
trant. This should be filled out and
returned to the Board within five
days, along with any otheT sup
porting evidence the registrant
deems necessary.
This information ‘ will be care
fully considered by the Board and
each man will be placed in one of
four classifications. Those that are
considered fit for duty at once will
be grouped together while those
having dependents are that are
deferred classes.
physically unfit will be placed in
Col. Tuck pointed out that any
man not satisfied with his classi
fication may appear before the
Board and that Classifications
may be changed from time to time
as deeme 1 necessary. All regis
trants are urged to keep in close
touch with the Local Board
through the newspapers in order
that they may know just what
their duty is regarding the new de
fense program.
F. Wright, Jr. Gets
Lieutenant Rank
Felix Wright, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Felix Wright ,of this
City, has been appointed as As
sistant Lieutenant of the R. O. T.
C. Regimental Band at Georgia
Tech.
Lt. Wright is well known in
having graduated from
Covington High School.
FARMERS GET PARITY CHECKS
Certification of cotton “parity”
checks to Georgia^ farmers toss
oassed the $7,000,000 mark, ac
ording to an announcement from
Athens this week by T R. Breed
love, acting administrative officer
of the Agricultural Adjustment